The gut contains the largest collection of immune cells in the body. New research at the Buck Institute shows that some of ...

With Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s appointment as Secretary of Health and Human Services under the second Trump administration, a ...

The anterior insular cortex (aIC) is an important brain region known to contribute to the regulation of emotions, the ...

UCLA researchers have developed a new kind of immunotherapy that uses specially engineered immune cells equipped with ...

New York City health officials have discovered a seventh death linked to a Legionnaires' disease outbreak in Central Harlem, ...

The demographics of lung cancer change every day. The disease, which directly affects the respiratory system, has long been ...

U.S. regulators approved updated COVID-19 shots Wednesday but limited their use for many Americans—and removed one of the two ...

Hormonal birth control is a fact of life for millions of women. In the U.S. alone, more than 60 million women of reproductive age have used contraceptives according to the Centers for Disease Control ...

A team of scientists led by Duke-NUS Medical School has solved a mystery behind a rare and previously undiagnosed disease that affects multiple organs, shedding new light on its cause—and offering ...

One of the defining features of humans is our brain's remarkable capacity for language, planning, memory, creativity, and more. These abilities stem not just from our large brain size, but also from ...

Sex-selective abortion bans (SSABs)—which prohibit the seeking of abortions based on the fetus' sex—increase the likelihood of low birth weight and preterm births among infants born to Asian immigrant ...

EPFL researchers have developed a powerful method to generate brain-wide, biologically realistic wiring maps of the mouse brain. Their approach bridges experimental data with mathematical and ...